Start Date: Immediate

Type: Full-time

Salary: Competitive with bonus opportunities

DNA is Uzbekistan’s first integrated communications agency. We support corporate clients, government agencies, and international organizations to communicate with key audiences and stakeholders through public relations, branding and marketing, publishing, and events.

We are looking for an ambitious, proactive, and motivated individual with experience in client-facing roles, ideally in previous communications or public relations roles. The Account Manager role requires a candidate with excellent writing and media handling skills. The candidate must be to support clients when implementing communications strategies or handling complex issues. They will also need to liaise with journalists directly on developing stories and press releases. The candidate will need to communicate with clients in a professional manner and to remain organised and responsive at all times.

Key Responsibilities:

• Media relations, including story and message development, creating, and driving outreach plans, speaking to journalists regularly to secure media coverage/briefings with senior editors and correspondents, briefing spokespeople, and ongoing development of own media contacts

• Serving as the daily client contact and as client lead when appropriate, earning the trust of clients to deliver day to day work as well as providing proactive counsel on new approaches or ideas that will help meet clients’ broader objectives

• Practical and solid understanding of the earned, owned, paid and social media space and how to incorporate these channels into client plans for holistic communications programmes

• Playing a key role in the research, planning and development of campaigns and driving these forward

• Practical and solid understanding of different media channels and how they should be utilised

• Overseeing quality and operational performance of accounts, ensuring work quality and deadline adherence for junior members of teams, providing close coaching and development

• Producing content; writing/editing press releases, social media content, articles, PR proposals

The ideal candidate for this role will have/be:

• Minimum qualifications of a bachelor's degree and two years of professional experience

• Excellent verbal and written skills and the ability to articulate point of view with confidence and gravitas

• Ability to work in English and Uzbek languages, and ideally also Russian

• Experience working with liaising with government officials, international stakeholders, and companies, and ensuring alignment with global standards and protocols

• Experience managing the lifecycle of official documents, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and proper archival, monitoring document change requests, coordinate approvals

• Desire to work as part of a team in a busy, fast paced and highly motivated working environment

• Interest in current affairs, news, and international business

• A delivery-driven manager, with ability to take responsibility of tasks and accounts

• A desire to share previous expertise and experience to enhance work of the team

• Keen to carve out distinctive role, take initiative, and creatively solve problems

To apply, please email a CV and cover letter to:

Ekaterina Ustinenko

ekaterina@dna-uzbekistan.com